Harbor Freight Windsor 8 Drawer Tool Chest Review

I've been wanting a Machinist Chest for whatever time, merely I could never justify spending the money requisite to grease one's palms one. Then I happened across this less peach while Googling around on Easter Day:

• Harbor Freight Eight Drawer Wood Tool Chest

It had some good reviews on Amazon, a list price of $99.99, is virtually always on sale for $79.99, and HF had an Easter twenty-four hours sale of %25 off the sale monetary value of one item. So I took the chance. (Please forgive the iPod pictures, my girl had the camera at the sentence.)

Here it is as it arrived, shipped in the box that they display it in along the shelves at HF. Non a bad thing in itself, but doesn't bid the best protection (every bit you'll see later happening):

Unpacked, I found IT to personify sealed air tight with several moisture adsorbing packets in both of the boxers:

After unwrapping IT, I gave it a thoroughgoing count over, and found one pocket-sized manufacturing defect in the redact between the drawers. Nada major, just a blemish you have to look for:

In that location was also a shipping damage billet on a as corner, where the box had been hit (Of the reviews that I had read on that, the shipping corner was really the only bad thing anyone had to say about the whole bureau):

The wholly woodwind instrument boxwood is quite attractive (the drawer bottoms are asterid dicot family material), information technology's light colored, with almost all the expression being either tongue and groove, or glue and peg with the holes full neatly. The center of the work area, the top division, and the drawer bottoms are all felt silk-lined:

Draftsman cover / mold area open:

Lid up, with the protective plastic film still along the mirror:

Film separate from the precise photogenic metal framed glass mirror:

Front again with a little inferior glare:

Solid wood inside and out:

Tag connected the make for area:

Trio plosive consonant hinges on the eyelid, appear small, but crop quite well:

One consequence that I noticed is that when resting connected a table that the work country is slightly angled referable construction intention. I'm thinking about mayhap adding some feet to the outside corners of the work area to horizontal surface it (observance the gold comer defender, there's ane along each of the eight corners):

The work area tucks away virtually %75 as needed:

The only area where I found "assembly line style" construction were the staples on inside edge of the drawer bottoms:

Drawers opened slightly:

Deuce sets of keys, cabinet lock for the lid, and a tumbler lock for the drawer cover / work area:

All the drawers are removable, with lingua and groove style slides. Here is one of the small boxers, only the top two have dividers, which are wood, and individually removable:

The same drawer with some Vic Classics and LM's:

One of the bottom boxershorts, holds 10 sheathed Core's nicely:

Pros:

• Wood construction
• Built passing well
• Lots of storage
• Removable boxers
• Great price
• Attractive piece of furniture

Cons:

• Poor packaging for merchant vessels
• Staples on inside edge draftsman bottoms
• Slight angle to the put to work surface
• Would equivalent more dividers, but for the price I can't complain

Boilersuit verdict? I love it, and will in all likelihood get another indefinite when this one is flooded.

Harbor Freight Windsor 8 Drawer Tool Chest Review

Source: https://forum.multitool.org/index.php?topic=28887.0

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